Vietnamese Cuisine || Noodle - Pho - The Traditional and Quintessential Vietnamese Dish

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Vietnamese Cuisine || Pho - The Traditional and Quintessential Vietnamese dish
Pho, Vietnam has inherited & developed the traditional cuisine
At the beginning of the 1950s when the French Colony divided Vietnam into 2 parts, Pho made its way to Saigon in South Vietnam. Then, Pho started to have a lot of variants. Up to now, there are three distinctive pho cultures which shaped by the Vietnamese turbulent history including Phở Bắc (Northern Recipe), Phở Huế (Central Vietnam Recipe), Phở Sài Gòn (Southern Vietnam Recipe). Generally, Pho Bac is characterized by the taste of salty. Pho Bac remains purity and rusticity that reflects the sensibilities of the Hanoian. Meanwhile, the Pho of South Vietnam often tastes sweeter, spicier because the South people prefer sweets sweet. The rice noodle of Pho Saigon is thinner that of Pho Bac. When making its way to the South, Pho became more customizable with the special condiment, variant sauces, and piles of fine herbs and vegetables. Therefore, Pho looks more polished and colorful which is more like the capitalist city is being a rising star.
Pho - The indispensable beauty of Vietnamese people's life
1. Pho reflects the essence of Vietnam - an agricultural country
The main ingredient of pho is the soft noodle which is thoroughly made from the rice. Vietnam is an agricultural country for a thousand years; therefore, rice plays a vital part in the normal life of people as well as the development of the country. Eating rice and cuisines made from rice such as noodle soup (phở), bun (bún), steamed roll rice pancake (bánh cuốn), and sticky rice cake (bánh chưng) becomes a highlight of Vietnamese cultures. In addition, pho is a typical cuisine due to its purity and its harmonious harmony combination of many traditional ingredients which is characteristic of Vietnamese cuisine. Pho is also served with many special herbs which can be hardly found anywhere but Vietnam. Last but not least, when enjoying pho people often drink some small cups of rice wine which is also a specialty of the agricultural countries.
Pho is cooked and sold in every corner of Vietnam. From the busy city to a peaceful village can you find a vendor of pho. Pho is served in both luxury and mediocre restaurants. In addition, it’s easy to find you countless vendors and food stalls serving pho along the street and even in the commercial buildings. In big cities like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Danang there are a great number of open-air storefronts along the street selling pho from the early morning until midnight. They often sell Pho to the middle night to serve some workers coming home late at night.
When the service staff brings the noodle to you, get ready by cleaning the chopstick and spoon by tissue and the juice of the kumquat. It sounds weird but almost Vietnamese people do so. Then, squeeze the lime on the spoon, remove all the lime seeds, and sprinkle the lime juice onto your bowl of pho. You also need to add some chopped chili, spicy sauces, and a mixture of garlic and vinegar. You can add some fish sauce to make pho saltier.
Then, hold the chopsticks in one hand, hold the soup spoon in the other hand, then mix the noodle quickly and get ready to enjoy it.
Let’s start enjoying pho with a sip of broth. Then take a deep to feel the sweet, fatty of the broth. Remember to be careful because the broth is very hot and sometimes very spicy if you put too much chili and sauce.
Pho tastes much better when it’s hot so that you should enjoy it immediately. To keep your tongue from being scorched, you should slurp the noodle instead of waiting for it cools down like the Western people often do. The Vietnamese calls slurp “húp”. When slurping, you take the noodle quickly into your mouth and the quick intake of air cools down the noodle rather than stopping and blowing on them. Slurping is sometimes considered as impolite actions because slurping makes some weird and annoying sounds. But you don’t have to worry about it, most of both foreign people and Vietnamese people like slurping. Slurping is the most efficient way to eat foods which are slippery like pho. In addition, by slurping you can eat the noodle before it becomes soggy and over-soft.
As mentioned above, Pho is a harmonious harmony combination of many traditional and healthy ingredients. The noodle made from rice is a good source of carbohydrate. In addition, the broth made by simmering the bone of beef, chicken or pork is good for health. Especially, pho is served with many fine herbs which are proved to be able to of helping people feel better such as ginger, mint, and spring onion.
Pho is the essence of Vietnamese traditional cuisine. It not only contributes to the abundance of Vietnamese cuisine but helps many of Vietnam people to make money. Besides, Pho is also a pride of the Vietnamese people. Nowadays, the Vietnamese have introduced Pho to global friends and brought pho into the world.